Lone Star Statements

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
“While the story did have a great moral to go along with it, it was
about dirt! Dirt and migrating. Dirt and migrating and more dirt.”

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
“When one contrasts Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five with this
book, it’s like comparing an Olympic sprinter with an obese man running
for the bus with a hot dog in one hand and a soda in the other.”

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
“It grieves me deeply that we Americans should take as our classic a
book that is no more than a lengthy description of the doings of fops.”